Monthly Archives: February 2007
Feng Shui – Project Overview
This post provides links to pertinent aspects of the Feng Shui project, so that you won’t have to sift through the archives to find out what you want to know.
This project was combined with a project on Clearing Our Clutter. The two projects were intended to work in tandem with one another, for this reason, I included the decluttering links as well. If you are only interested in the Feng Shui information, you can click on the Feng Shui category link in the sidebar. The Clearing Our Clutter posts have a project overview of their own, here: Clearing Our Clutter – Project Overview.
Links to the preliminary information:
- Feng Shui for Prosperity – the original concept
- What is Feng Shui?
- What is a Bagua?
If you would like to try this project for yourself, you can start on Day One: Make a Feng Shui Journal, and come back daily to continue on thru to the last one: Your Car is Your Friend. Or, you can pick through the posts, finding what seems interesting and useful. The important thing is to commit to a daily practice.
As you work with the Feng Shui project, we encourage you to post your thoughts, ideas, results, joys and disappointments as you go. This is an active blog, and if you post, we will notice and reply, and give you the benefit of our own experience and support if it seems pertinent or appropriate.
The basic summary of our results is posted here: Wrapping things up.
Here is the complete listing of the daily posts for the Feng Shui project:
- Day 1: Make a Feng Shui Journal and 27 Fling Boogie
- Day 2: Create a Bagua For Your Home and 27 things find a new home
- Day 3: The Prosperity Area and Purple for Prosperity and 5 minute room rescue
- Day 4: Big Money Symbols and Hot spot fire drill
- Day 5: Fame and Reputation Area and Liven up your Fame and Reputation with Color
- Day 5: Let your light shine and 3 Minutes to Fame and Fortune
- Day 6:Undergarment Boogie and The Love and Relationship Area
- Day 7: Symbols of love and Spread the love. and Colorize your love life
- Day 8: A quickie and The Creativity and Children Area
- Day 9: Enliven creativity and A quick fix and Colorize your Creativity
- Day 10: Enhancing the flow of chi and Mastering the concept of Chi and Clear that corner
- Day 11: Removing Hazards to Prosperity
- Day 12: Removing Hazards to Fame and Reputation
- Day 13: Removing Hazards to Relationships
- Day 14: Removing Hazards to Creativity
- Day 15: Another 27 Fling Boogie and Helpful People and Travel – Overview
- Day 16: Attracting Helpful People and Another five minute room rescue and Color and Containers for Helpful People
- Day 17: Your career in black and white and Take care of it now and Career area – an overview
- Day 18: Get your career moving and The rubber meets the road
- Day 19: Another hot spot fire drill and Skills and Knowledge area – an overview
- Day 20: Add substance to Skills and Knowledge and Book Drop and Enliven your Skills with color
- Day 21: Grab some garage sale stuff and Family area – an overview
- Day 22: Stabilize your Family area with symbols and Family photo project and Colorize your family area
- Day 23: Harmonize and healing with color and Finding your center and General and healing area – an overview
- Day 24: Symbols and anchors for your center and 5 extra minutes
- Day 25: Remove Hazards from Helpful People and Travel Area…
- Day 26: Remove hazards to your career and Remove hazards to Skills and Knowledge
- Day 27: Remove hazards to family area and Remove hazardous elements from Health area
- Day 28: A quick summary of each area and The effects of clutter
- Day 29: The Feng Shui Cover Your Butt Cure and Declutter – Let’s go for it!
- Day 30: Feng shui for your car and Car bagua and Your car is your friend
Clearing Our Clutter – Project Overview
This post provides links to pertinent aspects of the Clearing Our Clutter project, so that you won’t have to sift through the archives to find out what you want to know.
This project was combined with a project on Feng Shui, because of this some of the posts overlap, and the two projects work in tandem with one another. The original statement of intent can be found here: Feng Shui For Prosperity.
If you would like to try this project for yourself, you can start on Day One: 27 Fling Boogie, and come back daily to continue on thru to the last one: Your Car Is Your Friend. Or, you can pick through the posts, finding what seems interesting and useful. The important thing is to commit to a daily practice.
As you work with the Clearing Our Clutter, we encourage you to post your thoughts, ideas, results, joys and disappointments as you go. This is an active blog, and if you post, we will notice and reply, and give you the benefit of our own experience and support if it seems pertinent or appropriate.
A gallery of all the images used in this project can be found here: A Gallery of Clutter!
Here is the complete listing of the daily posts for the Clearing Our Clutter project:
- 27 Fling Boogie
- 27 things find a new home
- Five Minute Room Rescue
- Hot Spot Fire Drill
- 3 Minutes for Fame and Fortune
- Undergarment Boogie
- Spread the love
- A quickie
- A quick fix
- Clear that corner
- Removing Hazards to Prosperity
- Removing Hazards to Fame and Reputation
- Removing Hazards to Relationships
- Removing Hazards to Creativity
- Another 27 Fling Boogie
- Another five minute room rescue
- Take care of it now
- The rubber meets the road
- Another hot spot fire drill
- Book Drop
- Family photo project
- Grab some garage sale stuff
- Finding your center
- 5 extra minutes
- Remove Hazards from Helpful People and Travel
- Remove hazards to your career
- Remove hazards to Skills and Knowledge
- Remove hazards to family area
- Remove hazardous elements from Health
- The effects of clutter
- Declutter – Let’s go for it!
- Your car is your friend
Wrapping Things Up
Well, today is our last day of Feng Shui and De-cluttering, so it’s time to wrap things up and assess the effects this project had on our prosperity and our lives. So here is a questionaire to help bring things into focus:
- Did you do the de-cluttering projects?
- How well did they work for you?
- Which one was your favorite?
- What did you like most about the de-cluttering?
- What did you like least?
- How do you feel that the de-cluttering process impacted your life?
- Are you going to participate in the 200 things idea?
- Did you do any of the feng shui cures
- Did they achieve the desired effect?
- What happened?
- What, if anything, did you learn about yourself?
- Are you going to continue to use the principles of feng shui?
- Overall, would you rate this months as a “success” with regard to being a path to prosperity?
Here is a picture of the world’s largest wind chimes.
Cool huh?
A Gallery of Clutter
A gallery of the images posted as part of our Clearing Our Clutter project. Enjoy!
Note: This may not be all of them. I uploaded this project over a long period of time, and some of the images may have been missed.
Your car is your friend
Many people spend hours at a time in their cars which become like mini-homes. Like our homes, they become a reflection and extension of ourselves. Negative chi in cars has the power to create lasting damage and destruction to their owners and to others.
Some people talk to their cars, others give them names and personalize them. In some parts of the world they are blessed. Negative energy breeds negative response, so we should aim to build up a caring relationship with our cars.
For our de-clutter activity today, go out to your car and take a good long look. Does the outside look good and is the inside a mess? Does it look like it belongs to a bag lady? Or maybe it looks like it just came back from a mud wrestling contest. This car is your best friend. If your best friend arrived at your house, looking like that, what would you do?
So now you know what needs to be done, don’t put it off for another minute. Just do it.
Car Bagua
Flower power for your car:
Cut a six-inch bagua shape in each of the eight outside bagua colors and cut a nine-inch circle in yellow for the center. Arrange them in the proper order and tape them together. The final configuration should look like a colorful daisy with a yellow center and different colored petals. Place this daisy under the mat of the car. The black petal of the daisy should be closest to the rear trunk, and red (Fame) toward the engine. Place this bagua under the driver’s seat, or under the mat that covers the floor board.
Simply having a daisy (any size) somewhere on you (or in your brief case, shoe, or underwear) will assist you while on the road. Since this daisy is a complete bagua representation, it’s hard to think of any place that would be inappropriate.
From Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter
Feng Shui for your Car
Here are a few hints, tips, and cures, to help create good feng shui for your car:
Car seats should be taller at the back and have a supportive influence on either side. Cars which slope away to the back, and those which open at the back can leave us feeling insecure. Cars with reclining seats, such as expensive sports models, suggest vulnerability behind.
The rear lights act as our “Tortoise” warning those behind to brake. It is therefore essential to ensure they are clean and in working order, and that spent bulbs are replaced immediately.
Stickers on the rear window can strengthen the “Tortoise” or rear position, particularly those which say “Please Keep Your Distance” or “Baby on Board” and other polite, warning signs. Jokes and stickers which are difficult to read have the opposite effect in that they encourage the car behind to come closer. Stickers should not obstruct the window.
Any ornaments that act as a distraction behind should be avoided. Moving objects, like hanging ornaments can create instability and affect concentration. Do not allow loose items to collect in the back of the car.
Talismans for the car can include a St Christopher symbol or icon as he is the patron saint of travellers. Other cultures have their own protection symbols. License plates containing the number 88 are considered especially auspicious and means “double happiness”.
Fresh air is necessary in cars, in order to link the occupants with the world outside and to cleanse the air within the confined space. If the air is not fresh, the driver can become tired and lose concentration. To freshen the air we can introduce natural oils, which also affect our moods. Rosemary, neroli, and lemon oils are helpful for calming anger and promoting clear thinking.
Vision is important in the car and a clean screen and headlights enable us to see and be seen clearly on a foggy day and at night.
If we regard the car engine in the same way that we do our bodies, then we can appreciate that for the car to be healthy and function well, it’s tubes have to be unblocked and its components well maintained. Regular servicing is therefore important.
from The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui
by Gill Hale
De-Clutter – Let’s Go For It
Ok you guys, we are almost done with our 30 days of de cluttering. How about let’s move the rest of it on out.
Here’s a great idea I found at sketchblogs. The idea is to slowly but surely remove 200 things from your house. Either throw them away, or give them away, or put them up for sale on eBay or in a garage sale. As you do this, the idea is to keep track with a list so that you know just how many more things still need to go. I think it would be really fun if we keep track of our list by posting right here on this specific post. I’ll make a link for us, and put it somewhere easy to see and remember. As the year progresses, we can keep track of how well we are doing.
Another idea I found somewhere was a kind of “out with the old and in with the new”. The concept being that before you can bring something new into the house, room must be made for it by releasing 2 or 3 items that you no longer need. In this way, you are not sabotaging your own efforts at a clutter free home.
Another cool place to visit for good information is Zen Habits. There were some great ideas on de-cluttering there, and I urge you all to go and visit. He also has a nice little list of links as well, all on the subject of de-cluttering.
The Feng Shui Cover Your Butt Cure
You can bring balance to your home in any gua by using each of the elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
For example, a wrought iron (metal) table with a glass (water) top, holding a plant (earth), a wooden (wood) picture frame, and a candle (fire).
You can use this cure in any section of your house, especially if you have a feng shui situation that you can’t figure out. Each of the five elements is equally represented as a cure in this way.
Note:
If you are unsure of where the different areas are, see these posts:
- Radical Self Care Project Overview by shirleytwofeathers - No Comment
- Radical Self Care Image Gallery by shirleytwofeathers - No Comment
- It’s A Wrap by shirleytwofeathers - 3 Comments
- Something To Consider by shirleytwofeathers - 1 Comment
- Nurturing Your Precious Self by shirleytwofeathers - 3 Comments
me: Make Your Own Violet Fire
Abdulrahman: Money Chant – Very Fast
Shirley Twofeathers: It’s A Wrap
Daniel Knirs: It’s A Wrap
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